August 30, 2010

After some time writing in this blog. Everything got a bit chaotic. I had to refactor it. I changed the following things to make the blog easier to use: I changed the navigation of the blog finally to english. I moved all categories to tags and added only two categories for english and german posts.

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August 17, 2010

This is a translation of the essay: The Trouble with the Segway from Paul Graham to the german language. Der Segway hat sich, gelinde gesagt, nicht wie erhofft verkauft. Dafür gibt es mehrere Gründe. Einer davon ist das die Leute nicht auf einem Segway gesehen werden wollen. Jemand der einen Segway fährt sieht aus wie

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June 25, 2010

Through this entry in the Teambox blog from Pablo Villalba I discovered the E-Book “Don’t just roll the dice – A usefully short guide to software pricing”. The book written by Neil Davidson is available for free as pdf on the official site or as physical copy in bookstores. Here are the, in my opinion,

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May 20, 2010

For christmas I got a new Laptop from SantaClaus :-). After months of using it I finally found time to blog about it. The Laptop is a 15-inch MacBook Pro with an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 Ghz. I updgraded it to 8Gb RAM and bought an Intel X25-M SATA SOLID-STATE-DRIVE with 160 Gb. Here

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April 20, 2010

In my current project my coworker Christoph an I decided to build our own eXtreme feedback device for our continious build. We started with the NET-PwrCtrl HOME a power outlet controlled over ethernet. Then we looked for a fancy lamp. Bears and Lava lamps are already out there. So we looked for something different. We

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